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(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ... (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The last Fluke we weighed in from the 2008 season was the BIGGEST we have EVER weighed in… a 13 plus pounder caught by our customer Tom Schwender while fishing out of Shinnecock Inlet!
Stay tuned and keep an eye on our Fishing Blog, we’re in the process of writing a “Year in Review” areticle for this past season!
For those who STILL WANT TO FISH FOR FLUKE… the “Laura Lee” (party boat sailing out of Captree) has purchased additional Fluke Quota from New York State and will continue to fish for Fluke… at least untill they catch the amount they are allowed.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...However, the fishing in the bays seems to have stayed rather consistent with many Fluke to be caught but finding those keepers is more difficult inside. Sounds like the short to keeper ratio is around 30 or 40 to one. Some of the better reports have come from the south end of Swift Creek, and the channel the runs along the West side of Wantagh Parkway around the second bridge… pictured below inside the red circle.
Fluke Fishing Spot
If you’re going to look around in the ocean, we would still recommend using the large baits like live snappers, whole squid and large strip baits (Sea Robbin, Dog Fish bellies, Bunker or Mackerel Strips etc.). If you’re going to try jigging, try the Braid Thumper Jigs, Bucktails and Fluke Bullets… ALL with Teasers above them.
Don’t forget to bring the Gulp baits too…. they DEFINITELY WORK!!!!
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Right now, we have been hearing about some of the best Fluking EVER, with fish in the 6 to 10 pound range being caught every day! Similar to last week, the deal is to find the HARD BOTTOM such as a reef or a wreck for example. The Hempstead Reef, Atlantic Beach Reef, McAllister and Cholera have been outstanding around the outsides of the hard bottom.
Larger baits like whole Squid, Peruvian Smelts, large strip baits and LIVE SNAPPERS have been hard to beat either on a jig or simply on a plain old Fluke rig. However, sounds like the jigs and teasers are producing more fish but fewer keepers and the MEAT is producing the slobs.
Joe, from the shop, fished Sunday aboard the Tradewinds in Captree for a decent day with 2 keepers. On Monday he fished aboard the Superhawk in Point Lookout and “had the best Fluking of his life”! He had a limit of Fluke up to 7 pounds and just missed out on the pool! Joe was fishing with small Butterfish for bait (he cast netted them himself) and other people on the boat had great success with whole Squid too.
Yesterday we weighed a couple fish for Joe Mistretta and his partner Tim Luckas fishing on Joe’s boat the “Sea Cat”. They were fishing with live Snappers on Fin Strike Bucktail rigs on the deeper side of Hempstead Reef when they caught their limit of Fluke up to 9 plus pounds!!! Below is a picture of their catch from yeaterday.
Mike Sculley, fishing with Richy “Crazy Legs” outside the Hemstead Reef, brought a nice 7 lb 9 oz Fluke to our scale on 8-14-08… picture below.
Dick Mermon, outdoor writer / photographer, was fishing with one of his own hand tied white Bucktail and Berkley Gulp 4″ Swimming Mullet in 50 feet of water south west of Jones Inlet when he caught a 7lb 6oz Fluke.
As we mentioned… if you like Fluking… NOW IS THE TIME TO GO!!!
(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...It doesn’t matter if you fish out of Debs Inlet, Jones Inlet or Fire Island Inlet the fluke fishing in 60-80 feet of water both on structure and open bottom, has been spectacular! The keeper ratio can be as high as 70%. The fishing is better on days that seem to have a steady breeze. If you get a good drift and use Berkley Gulp! Alive! 4″ Swimming Mullet in either pearl white or chartreuse you are almost guaranteed success. This Berkley product can be fished by itself, on any type of teaser or on a Spro Bucktail, Fluke Bullet or Blue Frog Bucktail. We have several reports that the swimming mullet will catch fish even without it’s curly tail. Due to their wide spread success, many of our customers have become believers in this product.
Another great combination has been the Berkley Gulp! Cut Bait and 1 or 2 Peruvian Spearing (smelt) on an adjustable tandem Spro rig. If you happen to be fluking around The Hempstead Reef or The Atlantic Beach Reef several very nice Sea Bass almost always make up part of the catch.
The Reynolds Channel, Meadowbrook Bridge, Jones Inlet Triangle have had their moments as well. Generally, every 2 to 4 days a new body of fish is intercepted in this area. The best fishing almost always occurs on the incoming tide. All of the above mentioned artificial baits are producing but substitute local spearing or a live snapper for the Peruvian Spearing. It is not uncommon to see 5lbs - 8lbs fish each day at the shop!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In the bays, the keepers are a little harder to come by, but they are there! The West side of Merrick bay, Black Banks, the North East side of the Big Meadowbrook and Rowboat Alley have been very active but we’ve also heard of a few fish on the very south end of Swift Creek.
Richie “Crazy Legs” fished the south side of the Hempstead Reef, for 12 keepers to 5 plus pounds… and of coarse a pile of shorts as well. They were using the Peruvian Smelts, large strip baits and whole Squid.
“Newsday Joe” also reported his “best day of Fluking in years” from that same area a couple days ago. Again, Peruvians, Spearing and Squid did the trick for them.
Glenn, from the shop, fished around the McAllister on Tuesday for a limit of Fluke and a mess of shorts.
Ken Lanning landed a 9 lb 12oz Fluke in Jones Inlet while Bass fishing on Tuesday!
The Berkley Gulp! Swimming Mullets have been selling off the shelves as fast as we can get it. Raffaele Feniello stopped by for some gear on Monday and asked about the Gulp! products. We recommended the 4″ Swimming Mullets to him and he took some…. skeptically. BUT here is a report he e-mailed to us the following day:
“Monday 7-12-2008, outgoing tide, 12:30pm to 5:00pm by the Coast Guard Station in Jones Inlet. Bait used: Berkley Gulp Alive 4″ Swimming Mullet in Pearl White tipped with Sand Eels.
Thanks to the advice of the great crew at Causeway Bait and Tackle to turning us onto Berkley’s Gulp Alive, we had a slaughter of a day.
Thanks guys,
The Per Loro Crew
Keppers:
35 year old Capt Ralph @ the helm - 2 20.5″ flatties
Gianna Feneillo 3 1/2 years old - 1st keeper Fluke of her fishing career 20.5″ flattie
Charlie Cini - 11 years old 1st keeper of his life - 21.5″ FATTIE
Shorts:
Victoria Cini - almost 11 years old - 3 shorties
Frank Cini - 9 years old - 1 shortie on very light tackle, took the life out of him and he didn’t fish for the rest of the day. Thank God he didn’t hook into a blue. He would have been water skiing with no skis. ha ha ha ha
Raffaele R. Feniello
Network Engineer”
Ralph sent us some pictures too, Check Them Out!!!
Hot rigs and baits this week have been the Marathon Fluke rigs (with the squids on them), Spro Bucktails and Teasers, Captain Bills Floating Teaers, The Fin Strike Hi-Low Fluke Rig in White or Green, Fluke Pogies and the Braid Thumper Squid jigs. And of course the Berkley Gulp Alive Swimming Mullets!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Probably the best fishing we’ve had all season! We’re hearing some great reports from both the bays and the ocean, with plenty of action along with more keeper sized fish than we’ve seen this season so far.
Starting in the bays, some of the better reports are coming from the east side of the Wantagh Parkway between the 2nd and 3rd bridges and the north end of Haunts Creek where it dumps into East Bay. The west side of Merrick bay, where it meets Neds Creek has been a great area lately as well. White Fluke rigs tipped with Squid and Spearing have been the most reliable baits but now that we have some small Snappers around a few people are using them to catch the larger Fluke. As far as simply bending the rods, jigging is the way to go… but for the keeper sized Fluke we would recommend larger baits like whole squid, peruvian smelts, live snappers and any kind of large strip bait… like Sea Robbin bellies for example. The small Spro Bucktails with any kind of teaser have been crushing the Fluke lately… especially for those that are tipping the jigs with the Gulp baits. The Swimming Mullets and the new 3″ pink Squid are selling of the shelves faster than we can put it out!
In the ocean, STRUCTURE IS THE TICKET! The fish seem to be hloding around the reefs and wrecks… very typical of mid summer ocean Fluke fishing! Places like the McAllister, Hempstead Reef, The Fishing Line Reef and the Atlantic Beach Reef are ALL giving up the Fluke. Most of the spots are in 40 to 60 feet of water but we’ve had a few reports from the north side of Cholera too, which is a little deeper… more like 70 to 80 feet of water. None the less… FIND THE HARD BOTTOM and you’ll find the Fluke!
Danny V, from the shop, fished with Pete (also from the shop) on Tuesday and they managed a load of Fluke with 3 nice sized Keepers. They poked around the McAllister area and the Atlantic Beach Reef and had action ALL day. They fished with the larger Spro Bucktails and Thumper Jigs… all with teasers above them and Danny said he didn’t use a single piece of bait all day. He tipped his jigs with the Gulp 4″ Swimming Mullets in both Chart and White… and they both put fish in the boat.
Joe, from the shop made a Fluke trip on the Superhawk (sailing out of Point Lookout) recently and managed his LIMIT of keepers. Joe said that the people jigging caught the most amount of fish but those using the big bait, like he did, caught more keepers. Joe used the Spro Adjustable Bait Rig with whole Squid, to put 4 keeper sized fish in the cooler!
Chuck fished the ocean Monday afternoon with our customer Terrence on his boat “T-Bone”. They fished the McAllister area on the later part of the incoming and beat up on the small Fluke, with only one keeper sized fish for the day. They had some pretty fast current so they fished with sinkers on the bottom and two of the Captain Bills Floating teasers tied above… tipped with Gulp Sand Eels and Swimming Mullets. Action ALL afternoon but had trouble getting the keepers. Terrence also fished one of the Pro Series Fluke rigs and a heavy weight and caught well on it too.
Glenn, from the shop ,fished on his boat “Kerri Lee” this past weekend and did a combo trip. They did a little Bass fishing, a little bottom fishing and some Fluking and had a great day all around. Fluking was good for them around the McAllister as well, on the Spro Bucktails… with teasers… all tipped with the Chartreuse 4″ Swimming Mullets.
On another note… Diane Moore, weighed in a 8.58lb Fluke for the Noreast.com Fluke Mania Tournament and placed 9th… taking home a $500 check… GOOD JOB Diane!!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In the ocean it sounds like the keeper ratio is better, not great, but better than it was. Sounds like the deeper you go, the better the ratio has been. We’ve heard of Fluke caught as shallow as 20 feet of water and as deep as 90 feet. Slightly West of Jones Inlet seems better than anywhere to the East… unless you go WAY East… like East of Fire Island Inlet. The larger baits like Sandeels, whole Squid and the Peruvian Smelts seem to work well in the ocean, but it’s still hard to beat the Spearing. Like the Bay fisherman… LOTS OF GULP BAITS being used in the ocean too! The heavier jigs like Fluke Bullets, Thumper Jigs and Spro Bucktails seem to be the ticket in the ocean… especially if you have some kind of a teaser tied above it. Some of the more popular teasers these days are simple white or pearl teasers, the Capt. Bills Floaters and more and more people are using the small Spro Baby Bucktails for teasers now too.
Spoke with a charter captain, from Montauk, on the phone the other day and he reported that the fishing was GREAT…. BUT… hard to find the keepers there too. Rumor has it that there was some better fishing outside Shinnecock Inlet this past weekend and Moriches Bay has been on fire… probably the best keeper ration on the South Shore right now!
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